The conditions at Iwo Jima made the battle an epic of struggle against extreme odds. Ingenious defenses, demoralizing attacks, and the island itself with Mount Suribachi looming in the background gave a special horror...

The first Naval Battle of WW2 was the Battle of the River Plate, opposite Montevideo in the South Atlantic. A British Navy Division did battle with the mighty German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and damaged her...